sauntering thru.

I have been romanticizing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for years now. I settled with hiking the John Muir Trail in the summer of 2018. I wanted my JMT experience to determine if long distance backpacking was for me. If I can live outside for 3 weeks, can I live outside for 5 months?

This is a non-technical blog where I focus mostly on my experience and day-to-day life on the John Muir Trail. I kept a very small journal where I wrote every day at the end of the night while laying in my tent. I have now compiled all those written entries and submitted them here so that in 30 years I can come back and relive my experience in detail.  How I felt each day, what I thought, what I saw, who I spoke to and who I met, the struggles and my most fondest memories that I never want to forget.

I have left my heart and soul on the John Muir Trail forever, read my entries and you might understand why.  If you don’t understand, then I challenge you to take the trip and find out for yourself.